According to the report, malnutrition– either undernourishment or obesity– is responsible for nearly half of all deaths of children under five worldwide and, together with poor diets, is the number one driver of disease.

The work, covered in two studies published on May 4 in the journal Nature and Nature Cell Biology, showed how the cells that will eventually form the human body self-organise into the basic structure of a post-implantation human embryo.

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